Ocean State Job Lot to open store in Schenectady

The Rhode Island-based discount retailer will lease a 25,000-square-foot store — a space about half the size of a typical supermarket — at Crosstown Plaza on Route 7, according to an announcement this morning from the Schenectady Metroplex Development Authority.

The store, which will employ 70 people, both full- and part-time, will open in March. Ocean State Job Lot operates 81 stores in Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine and New York.

It opened its first New York store in Ballston Spa. This will be its second in the state.